World Athletics Championships 1997 / men's high jump

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 4th (qualification) August 6th (final)
Medalist Javier Sotomayor ( CUB )   Artur Partyka ( POL )   Tim Forsyth ( AUS )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The men's high jump at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 4 and 6, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

The winner of the Cuban world champion in 1993 , two-time runner-up ( 1991 / 1995 ), Olympic champion in 1992 and world record holder Javier Sotomayor . Second place went to the Polish vice world champion from 1993, World Cup third from 1995, Olympic second from 1996 , Olympic third from 1992 and Vice European Champion from 1994 Artur Partyka . Bronze went to the Australian Tim Forsyth .

Existing records

World record	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
World championship record	2.40 m		World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	22nd August 1993

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

August 4, 1997, 6:00 p.m.

35 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.28 m. Ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the two next-placed athletes - they had crossed 2.26 m in the first attempt - to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). Two other athletes who had only mastered 2.26 m with their second jump, on the other hand, were among the eliminated participants.

Group A

Dragutin Topić retired with 2.23 m in qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.15 m	2.19 m	2.23 m	2.26 m	2.28 m
1	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	2.28	O	O	O	O	O
	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	2.28	-	O	-	O	O
3	Lambros papakostas	Greece	2.28	-	O	O	O	xo
4th	Martin Buss	Germany	2.28	O	xo	O	xo	xo
5	Charles Austin	United States	2.26	-	O	-	xo	xxx
6th	Charles Lefrançois	Canada	2.23	-	O	O	xxx
	Staffan beach	Sweden	2.23	O	-	O	xxx
8th	Jaroslaw Kotewicz	Poland	2.23	O	-	xo	xxx
	Mark Boswell	Canada	2.23	-	O	xo	xxx
	Mark Mandy	Ireland	2.23	O	O	xo	xx–	x
	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	2.23	O	-	xo	-	xxx
12	Elvir Krehmic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.23	xxo	O	xo	xxx
13	Brendan Reilly	Great Britain	2.23	-	O	xxo	xx–	x
14th	Arturo Ortíz	Spain	2.19	-	O	-	xxx
	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	2.19	O	O	xxx
16	Randy Jenkins	United States	2.19	xxo	xxo	-	xxx
17th	Konstadínos Liápis	Greece	2.15	O	xxx

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.15 m	2.19 m	2.23 m	2.26 m	2.28 m
1	Steinar Hoen	Norway	2.28	-	-	O	-	O
	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.28	-	-	O	O	O
	Artur Partyka	Poland	2.28	-	O	-	O	O
4th	Tim Forsyth	Australia	2.28	O	-	-	O	O
5	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	2.28	O	O	xo	xo	xxo
6th	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.28	-	xo	O	xxo	xxo
7th	Jan Janků	Czech Republic	2.26	-	O	xo	O	xxx
8th	Sergei Kljugin	Russia	2.26	O	xxo	O	O	xxx
9	Steve Smith	Great Britain	2.26	O	-	xo	xo	xxx
10	Didier Detchenique	France	2.23	O	O	O	xxx
	Brian Brown	United States	2.23	O	-	O	xxx
	Stevan Zoric	Yugoslavia	2.23	-	O	O	xxx
13	Dimítrios Kokótis	Greece	2.23	xxo	O	O	xxx
	Mustapha Raifak	France	2.23	xxo	O	O	xxx
15th	Glenn Howard	New Zealand	2.15	O	xxx
	Julio Luciano	Dominican Republic	2.15	O	xxx
17th	Michiya Onoue	Japan	2.15	xo	xxx
18th	Khemraj Naïko	Mauritius	2.15	xxo	xxx

final

August 6, 1997, 6:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.29 m	2.32 m	2.35 m	2.37 m	2.39 m	2.41 m
1	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.37 WL	-	xo	-	O	O	xo	-	xxx
2	Artur Partyka	Poland	2.35	O	-	O	-	xo	xx–	x
3	Tim Forsyth	Australia	2.35	O	-	xo	O	xo	x–	xx
4th	Steinar Hoen	Norway	2.32	-	O	O	O	xx–	x
	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.32	-	-	-	O	xxx
6th	Lambros papakostas	Greece	2.32	-	O	O	xo	xx–	x
7th	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	2.29	O	O	O	xxx
8th	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	2.29	xo	O	O	xxx
9	Martin Buss	Germany	2.29	xxo	O	O	xxx
10	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	2.29	O	O	xo	xxx
11	Sergei Kljugin	Russia	2.29	xo	xo	xxo	r
12	Jan Janků	Czech Republic	2.25	O	O	xxx

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  As in 1993 , the world record holder Javier Sotomayor (photo: 2009) became world champion - in 1991 and 1995 he was vice world champion and 1992  Olympic champion

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  For the second time Vice World Champion after 1993: Artur Partyka (here in 2013) , Olympic second in 1996, Olympic third in 1992 and Vice European Champion in 1994

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  The reigning European champion Steinar Hoen (here 2012) came in fourth place

Video links

• Men's High Junp World Athletics Championships Athens 1997 on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020
• Men's High Jump Qualifying and Final - 1997 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Men High Jump Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 20, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men High Jump, Athens 1997, p. 160 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 20, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 20, 2020